How much arable land is left in the world?
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How much arable land is left in the world?
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How much arable land is left in the world?
aron
At the time of this writing, the most recently available statistics pertain to 2010, at which point the World Bank reported that about 37.7 percent of the world’s total land area was considered agricultural land, while approximately 10.6 percent was considered arable.
andrew
At present some 11 percent (1.5 billion ha) of the globe’s land surface (13.4 billion ha) is used in crop production (arable land and land under permanent crops). This area represents slightly over a third (36 percent) of the land estimated to be to some degree suitable for crop production.
John Wick
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in the year 2013, the world’s arable land amounted to 1.407 billion hectares, out of a total of 4.924 billion hectares of land used for agriculture.